Pay off higher interest debt first.

It might be tempting to pay your student loans as fast as you can, but student loans aren’t the only debt that most graduating students have. According to a Sallie Mae study in 2009, over 90% of college students had at least one credit card and graduating seniors had an average of over $4k in credit card debt. With an average interest rate of almost 17% on student credit cards, paying these off should be a higher priority than paying down student loans early.